Open Help Conference, 2011
I’m in Cincinnati in advance of the Open Help Conference, an event organized around open source docs, and the building of community documentation efforts in commercial projects. The conference will kick-off this evening with a social event, and will continue (with both the conference and post-conference docs hackfests) through Wednesday. The event has some great [...]
Ubuntu documentation at UDS: A summary
Now that my week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over, and I have completed my safe flight back, I thought I would write up a blog post about my experience while I complete my recovery from jet lag. My week at UDS was a challenging week. A great week. A week in which I [...]
International Color Guide
I came across Xerox’s International Color Guide while reading through the items on my feed reader this evening. Because Ubuntu is developed for an international audience, I thought this color guide might be interesting to some of the artwork and desktop-UI folks in the Ubuntu community. The guide also includes a link to a “color [...]
At the documentation conference
I’m attending the WritersUA conference in Seattle this week, and yesterday was day one of the conference. The conference started with Scott McCloud talking about how he created his Google Chrome comic, and I attended other talks on ISO documentation standards, as well as architecting your content so it can be reused. McCloud’s talk was [...]
Packaging: it might be helpful – even for documentors
Fellow Chicagolander, nixternal, provided the Ubuntu-Chicago local community team with a few links to packaging-related articles that are available from some Debian and Kubuntu websites: 1) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy 2) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#devref 3) http://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#maint-guide 4) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide 5) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PbuilderHowto 6) https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PackagingGuide/Lists/DocumentationResources He sent them out to the mailing list in advance of a packaging session that’s being held this [...]
